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Gold Fields sticking with Black Stars
Accra, March 25, GNA – Gold Fields
Ghana Limited, headline sponsors of Ghana’s Black Stars have
avowed to stick to their sponsorship deal with the team
despite the global economic crunch.
Gold Fields has two million dollars out of the 6.7million
five-year deal to spend between now and 2010 and Peter
Turner, Managing Director of the company says the global
economic crunch cannot stop their commitment to the goal.
He told GNA Sports in Accra on Wednesday that “We at Gold
Fields carry out our promises and our commitment to the
Black Stars remain unrivalled.
“We will not change our minds; credit crunch or not.”
Mr Turner said his outfit swims in the immeasurable joy that
Ghanaians gain when the Stars glitter and that was enough to
keep their support for the national “Team A”.
Ghana hosts Benin in Kumasi on Sunday in the first game of
the final round of qualifiers for the 2010 African Cup of
Nations and World Cup.
Mr Turner was buoyant about the chances of the team and
called on Ghanaians to rally behind the Stars to make the
journey smoother.
“It is our wish that Ghanaians and Gold Fields will be
celebrating qualification in November when the qualifiers
are over.”
Dr Tony Aubynn, Corporate Affairs Director of Gold Fields
urged soccer fans to throng the Baba Yara arena in Kumasi
and lend their maximum “support and passion to the national
quest to be among the 32 football nations to participate in
the World Cup.”
Ghana is pitted in Group D alongside Mali, Benin and Sudan.
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